The Kenyon Review

My New Year’s resolution is to give our Instagram feed more love and attention.

This year's Kenyon Review Literary Festival (November 3-6) features a keynote address by two-time Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel, readings by Kimberly Blaeser and Daniel Mark Epstein, and writing workshops with Epstein, Jaquira Diaz, and Margaree Little.

There will be family-friendly events including Empty Bowls, a dramatic reading of the play "Wolf Hall," a panel about reimagining the Renaissance, a sidewalk sale at the Kenyon College Bookstore, a chance for kids to make their own coats of arms, and even a visit by live falcons from the Ohio Wildlife Center. All events are free and open to the public. Join us!

"I like surprises. Not in life, but on the page."

“Nothing harbors a secret like sweetness.”

-Matthew Olzmann’s “Letter to a Cockroach, Now Dead and Mixed Into a Bar of Chocolate”

You know what is exciting? Giving out awards.

Shout out to Eve Gleichman, who just won the 2016 Short Fiction Contest for her story “Butter.” Jaimy Gordon said it had “a certain gutsy integrity . . . that won me over.” 

Some extraordinary work by 1939 Press.

“Witness" by Benjamin Landry. The background was created with an India ink and salt resist, then jet-printed and letterpressed. It is signed by the author.

As for "Séance" by Melissa Ginsburg, 1939 Press used Suminagashi (a Japanese marbling technique) and letterpressed it in two colors. It is signed by the poet as well.

The student associates did each step of the process from choosing paper, setting up the press, and mixing the ink, to clean-up. They chose two poems from the Kenyon Review, got permission from the poets to create the broadsides and engaged in creative design thinking exercises to generate ideas for concept, image and typographical layout. Each broadside required the plates to be hand-inked on the iron sign press and printed one sheet at a time.